GriefSPEAK: Happy Birthday, Bobby – Mari Nardolillo Dias

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By: Mari Nardolillo Dias “If you’re lost you can look and you will find me, time after time” (Cyndi Lauper) Tuesday, January 25th was my brother Bobby’s 68th birthday – his first in heaven.  Only six months since his sudden and untimely death. My plan was to bring a butterfly on a wire (so it…

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GriefSpeak: A letter to my brother – Mari Nardolillo-Dias

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By: Mari Nardolillo-Dias “I did it my way” (written by Claude Francoise and Jacques Revaux, English interpretation by Paul Anka, sung by Frank Sinatra).   A Letter to My Brother Good Wednesday Morning, Bobby –  I’ve texted this salutation to you every day for 4 weeks. Sometimes you responded with a simple emoji, sometimes you didn’t respond at all. But as you told me, you read every one. I continue to…

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